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Mary-Claire King (born February 27, 1946) [1] is an American geneticist. She was the first to show that breast cancer can be inherited due to mutations in the gene she called BRCA1. She studies human genetics and is particularly interested in genetic heterogeneity and complex traits. [2] She studies the interaction of genetics and environmental ...
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Professor of Genome Sciences and of Medicine (Medical Genetics) phone: (206) 616-4294. fax: (206) 616-4295. Health Sciences K-160. Box 357720. mcking [ a t ] uw.edu. Our group uses approaches from genetics, genomics, molecular and cell biology, mathematics, and computational biology in order to identify and characterize genes responsible for ...
Long before scientists completed mapping the human genome in 2003, geneticist Mary-Claire King discovered BRCA1, the first gene for a hereditary form of breast cancer. That feat in 1990 helped explain why some women who carried mutations in this gene saw their lifetime risk for developing breast cancer rise from 8% to over 80%.
Feb 9, 2015 · Mary-Claire King discovered BRCA1, the so-called breast cancer gene, and now believes every woman should be tested. ... Dr. King, 68, is now a geneticist at the University of Washington.
Dr. Mary-Claire King was born February 27, 1946, in Evanston, Ill., a suburb of Chicago. She studied mathematics at Carleton College in Northfield, Minn., graduating in 1966 at the age of 20. King then went to University of California, Berkeley to pursue a doctorate in statistics. An early course in genetics changed the entire course of her ...
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Jun 2, 2014 · That was the case with Mary-Claire King, professor of genome sciences and of medicine at University of Washington. King discovered the region on the genome that eventually became known as BRCA1 ...
Mary-Claire King, PhD, is the American Cancer Society Professor at the University of Washington, Seattle. She was the first to show that breast cancer is inherited in some families because of mutations in the gene that she named BRCA1. In addition to inherited breast and ovarian cancer, her research interests include the genetic bases of ...
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